The Projects

RESOTISSUS

Réappropriation, circulation et documentation des savoir-faire textiles africains

REPATGUI

Réseau Patrimoine de Guinée

FangBeti

Pangwe-Pahouin-Fang-Bulu-Beti... objects to be identified and located (FangBeti)

ProHumStra

Re-connecting human remains an cultural objects : Provenance research and re-humanization of ancestral remains from former German colonies in Africa at the University of Strasbourg

PROBAMA

Provenances d'Objets BAmana du Soudan Français (Mali) between 1880 and 1914 : Colonial acquisitions, appropriations and competition in the collections of the Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt and the Musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac.

Matrimoines / ReMatriation

Collaboration with communities and diasporas to research and revive the history, origins, and narratives of African objects held in France and Germany.

PHOTOTOGO

PhotoTogo – Shedding light on colonial photographs from Togo: conducting reciprocal, transnational, and interdisciplinary research

DIASKW

Dialogical research into early and late colonial objects from Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo in the Lübeck World Cultures Collection (DIASKW)

PROV-GUI

Collaborative Project to Research the Provenance of Objects from Guinea

CADEAU SENGHOR

A Gift from Senghor. The Trajectory of Four Carved Ivory Tusks.
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About the Fond

Museums, cultural, scientific and academic institutions in both Germany and France hold substantial collections of cultural objects with great symbolic, artistic, historic or societal significance for the countries and societies of origin. Over the last few years, strengthening provenance research has been a major objective for Germany and France, as well as for many other European countries. France and Germany have sought to support making sub-Saharan cultural heritage more accessible again to the Sub-Saharan public.

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